Yonik recently wrote about “Advanced Filter Caching in Solr” where
he talked about expensive and custom filters; it was left as an
exercise to the...
0 replies - 5604 views - 02/23/12 by Erik Hatcher in Articles
The Apache Software Foundation celebrates the 17th Anniversary of the Apache HTTP Server today with the official release of v2.4.Celebrating its 17th...
0 replies - 5632 views - 02/21/12 by Chris Smith in Articles
Recently we had a change to help with a non-commercial project which
included search as its part. One of the assumptions, although not the
key ones, was...
1 replies - 5123 views - 02/21/12 by Rafał Kuć in Articles
Two popular methods of indexing existing data are the Data Import
Handler (DIH) and Tika (Solr Cell)/ExtractingRequestHandler. These can
be used to index...
0 replies - 6997 views - 02/15/12 by Erick Erickson in Articles
I’ve been spending the last few days at work trying to improve our
search performance, and have been banging my head against the dismax
query target and...
0 replies - 4759 views - 02/14/12 by Geoffrey Papilion in Articles
When Solr versioning changed to align with Lucene and it hit 3.x, the implications were major - not only in terms of the migration differences that you need to...
0 replies - 3818 views - 02/13/12 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles
Advanced Filter Caching is a relatively new feature in Solr,
available in version 3.4 and above. It allows precise control over how
Solr handles filter...
1 replies - 3628 views - 02/13/12 by Yonik Seeley in Articles
A very handy new feature called query time joining is coming to Lucene sooner than anticipated. While it was confirmed last month that it would be in Lucene...
0 replies - 5593 views - 02/11/12 by Mitch Pronschinske in News
The Dismax query parser has been with Solr for a long time. Most of the time we use parameters like qf, pf or mm forgetting about a very useful parameter...
0 replies - 4316 views - 02/08/12 by Rafał Kuć in Articles
One of the features of the latest Solr version (3.5)
is the ability to identify the language of the document during its
indexation. In today's entry we...
0 replies - 4535 views - 02/06/12 by Rafał Kuć in Articles
Learn about the controversy that emerged in the early days of the Java 7 GA release because of the effect it had on Apache Lucene - from the perspective of Uwe...
3 replies - 10638 views - 02/03/12 by Mitch Pronschinske in Videos
One of the configuration variables we can find in the solrconfig.xml file is maxBooleanClauses,
which specifies the maximum number of boolean clauses that...
0 replies - 3392 views - 02/02/12 by Rafał Kuć in Articles
Recently, we had a project where we helped a client index a corpus of
Chinese language documents in Solr. We have asked Dan Funk, a committer
to Project...
0 replies - 7324 views - 01/30/12 by Jason Hull in Articles
This talk will show how the relevance of search results can be
improved by using morphological analysis and named entity recognition.
After briefly...
0 replies - 5089 views - 01/27/12 by Mitch Pronschinske in Videos
Search at Etsy poses significant challenges. Our marketplace is
filled with millions of unique, short-lived items and people trying to
find them over 10...
0 replies - 6192 views - 01/26/12 by Mitch Pronschinske in Videos
